This protocol details a procedure, known as the modified preplate technique, which is currently used in our laboratory to isolate muscle cells on the basis of selective adhesion to collagen-coated… (More)

The male gamete (sperm) can fertilize an egg, and pass the male genetic information to the offspring. It has long been thought that sperm had a simple protein composition. Efforts have been made to… (More)

Human, rat, and mouse studies have demonstrated the existence of a population of adipose-derived adult stem (ADAS) cells that can undergo multilineage differentiation in vitro. However, it remains… (More)

Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is a new tracer imaging modality that is gaining significant interest from NMR and MRI researchers. While the physics of MPI differ substantially from MRI, it employs… (More)

Although antimicrobial resistance poses a great challenge to clinicians in China, there are limited antimicrobial resistance data on Gram-negative bacteria nationwide. We investigated the phenotypic… (More)